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Eben-ezer a memorial of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition…Eben-ezer a memoriall of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition…
Eben-ezer a memorial of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition on the first ten verses of the third chapter of the prophecy of Habakkuk in two sermons. The first preached at Colchester before his Excellency on a day of thanksgiving for the surrender thereof. The other at Rumford unto the committee who were imprisoned by the enemy Sep. 28. a day set apart unto thanksgiving for their deliverance. / By John Owen pastor of the church of God which is at Coggeshall.Eben-ezer a memoriall of the deliverance of Essex, county, and committee, being an exposition on the first ten verses of the third chapter of the prophesie of Habakkuk in two sermons. The first preached at Colchester before his Excellency on a day of thanksgiving for the surrender thereof. The other at Rumford unto the committee who were imprisoned by the enemy Sep. 28. a day set apart unto thanksgiving for their deliverance. / By John Ovven pastor of the church of God which is at Coggeshall.
London: printed by W. Wilson, 1648
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In general they consult to take Arms, wherein God had fully appeared against them, when in all probability their work would have bin done without. Had they not fought, by this time they had bin conquerors. One half years peace more, which we desired on any terms, & they would on no terms bear, in all likely hood had set them where they would be. Their work went on, as if they had hired the Kingdom, to serve them in catching weather. What with some mens folly, others treachery, all our divisions, had not their own counsels set them on fighting, I think we should suddenly have chosen them, and theirs, to be umpires of our quarrels. God saw when it was time to deal with them. In their undertaking in our own County, I could give sundry instances, how God mixed a perverse spirit of folly and error in all their counsels. A part of the Magistracy of the County is seized on: therein their intentions towards the residue clearly discovered, yet not any attempt made to secure them, which they might easily have accomplished, although ⟨p. 46⟩they could not but suppose, that there were some gentlemen of public and active spirits left, that would be industrious in opposition unto them. Was not the Lord in their counsels also, when they suffered a small inconsiderable party in a little Village within a few miles of them, to grow into such a body as at length they durst not attempt, when they might have broken their whole endeavour with half an hundred of men? Doubtless of innumerable such things as these, we may say with the Prophet, The Princes of Zoan are become fools, the Princes of Noph are deceived, they have seduced the people, even they that are the stay of their Tribes, the Lord hath mingled a perverse spirit in the middest of them, they have caused the people to err in every work, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit. Isa. 19. 13, 14. Doubtless the wrath of man shall praise the Lord, and the remainder of it will he restrain.
In generall they consult to take Armes, wherein God had fully appeared against them, when in all probability their work would have bin done without. Had they not fought, by this time they had bin conquerers. One halfe years peace more, which we desired on any termes, & they would on no termes beare, in all likely hood had set them where they would be. Their work went on, as if they had hired the Kingdome, to serve them in catching weather. What with some mens folly, others treachery, all our divisions, had not their own counsells set them on fighting, I think we should suddainly have chosen them, and theirs, to be umpires of our quarrels. God saw when it was time to deale with them. In their undertaking in our own County, I could give sundry instances, how God mixed a perverse spirit of folly and error in all their counsels. A part of the Magistracy of the County is seized on: therein their intentions towards the residue clearly discovered, yet not any attempt made to secure them, which they might easily have accomplished, although